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View definitions for tearing

tearing

adjective as in agonizing

adjective as in breaking

adjective as in racing

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I just want the abuse to stop and I want them to stop tearing families apart.

The new House report is tearing apart dozens of GOP claims about the 2012 attack.

The gang does bait two officers with Noah, but another car comes tearing in and whisks them both away.

In most battles, the rounds focus on battlers tearing each other down or hyping their own mastery of battle skills.

Then he began tearing up, and walked over to his mother and embraced her.

It lit up every ridge and hollow for two or three seconds, and showed me four riders tearing up the slope at a high run.

He dashed into his own hotel, wrote five notes one after the other, tearing up each one before it was finished.

Jem Spyers dashes out; and there he sees Chickweed tearing down the street full-cry.

It was shrill, it was penetrating, it rose and fell with a sort of ripping, tearing slash.

Just as the motor got busy, the dog dropped beside Matt, gripping his right sleeve and tearing a piece out of the stout leather.

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On this page you'll find 146 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tearing, such as: excruciating, harrowing, intense, tortuous, disturbing, and heart-wrenching.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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